About quarantined mails

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 8:19 pm, Hongwei Li wrote:

> My questions are:
>
> 1. Some mails are quarantined in
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030916/spam (for today).  When I
> check them, I find some of them are not junk mails.  How to deliver them
> to the supposed receiver?

Simply copy or move the qf/df mail queue file pairs to your delivery queue
and sendmail will deliver them.

> 2. I notice that each quarantined mail is splitted into 2 parts, e.g. the
> name is dfh8GFS6v13245 and qfh8GFS6v13245.  If there is a way to
> re-deliver this mail, how to "combine" or merge them into an "original"
> or regular mail to deliver?

No.   This is the whole point of quarantining the files in sendmail's queue
format.   These are the files which sendmail uses in its own queue
directories.

Just copy the matching qf/df pair of files to your output / delivery queue
and sendmail will know what to do with them.

> 4. How to adjust the rule to reduce in-correct quarantining and rejecting
> non-junk mails?

This is probably a SpamAssassin question.   It depends why the mails are
being identified as spam when they are noi.

> 5. If a mail has any virus, will that mail be quarantined or repaired?

"Repairing" is very unusual these days (and ClamAV cannot do it anyway, so
since this is the AV engine you are using, the idea does not apply).   Most
emails containing viruses are nothing except virus - there is nothing else to
bother repairing.

> How to check the information?

Look at the headers of emails received by the clients, and look at the syslog
on the mail server.

Regards,

Antony.

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